Car-coupling



(No Model.)

S. L. STUVER.

CAR GOUPLING.

Patented Aug. 2.3, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Clinica.

SAMUEL L.v STUVER, OF ROSEDALE, PENNSYLVANIA.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 368,792, dated August 23, 1887.

Application led June "l, 1887.

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, SAMUEL L. STUvEE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rosedale, in the county of Cambria and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Gar-Couplings; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has relation to improvements in devices foreoupling cars; and" it has for its object to provide means for sustaining the pin in a position to enter the connectingslink and hole in the draw-heads when the said heads are brought together, and also means for supporting the connecting-link in an elevated position, so as to obviate the objectionable necessity of going between the cars to lift the link in coupling. These objectsI accomplish by the devices shown and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a longitudinal sectional view of a draw-head, showing my improvements attached. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing one head coupled and the other with the pin in the act of coupling, and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal. horizontal sectional view of one of the heads.

Referring to the said drawings by letter, A B indicate two draw-heads, which may be of any ordinary or approved construction, and C the draw-bars having the surrounding cushion-springs D.

E E indicate stops for the connecting-link. These stops are arranged in the draw-head in advance of the draw-bars, and serve the additional function of supportingthe couplingpin preparatory to the coupling action of the cars. The draw-heads are recessed or cut away in their floor, as shown, so as to form an abutting shoulder, a, for the linkstops E. These shoulders a arein rear of the Vpin-hole in the floor ofthe drawheads, so as to allow the heads b of the stops to pass beneath the upper hole, as more fully shown in Figs. l and 2. By this construction it will be seen that when the con- Serial No. 240,510. (No model.)

- nectinglink has been inserted in the mouth of the draw-head it will press the spring-actuated stop inwardly, thereby allowing the pin to drop through the said link and also the eye of 5o the floor. The stops E, in addition to being shouldered, as described, are also recessed on their forward lower ends, as shown at b. This recess is designed for the purpose of receiving the end of the coupling-link, and it will be seen that when the link has been so engaged its opposite or free end will be sustained in an elevated posit-ion, so as to obviate the necessity ofthe operator going between the cars in coupling them. The stern of this stop-head is surrounded by a spring for normally holding it homeward in the draw-head, and exterior to this spring is a re-enforcing spring, H, which will prevent any undue strain upon the parts in connection with the said stop or link-supporter.

Having described this invention, what I claim isl. The combination, with a draw-head constructedas described and having the abutment a in the lower wall thereof, of the springpressed stop, recessed to engage the said abntment, and also recessed at b to receive the end of the coupling-link stop, being also adapted to sustain the pin preparatory to coupling, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination, with a draw-head con structed as described and having the abutment c in the oor thereof, of the spring-pressed stop having its head recessed to engage the said stop, and also recessed to receive the end of the couplingflinlgthe spring surrounding s JN0. M. Rosn, I. E. ROBERTS. 

